National College Match - 2009-2010

Paying for College Access Programs (Questbridge, Posse)
6081

<p>Hi everyone I’m currently a high school junior in Canada. I’ve known about the Questbridge college Match Scholarship for quite a while but only decided to participate recently. Two quick questions:</p>

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<li><p>On the official website it says that only Princeton, Yale and Pomona(Penn too actually, since I’m Canadian) are to provide scholarships for international applicants. Does it mean that I’ll just go through the same application process as do the American applicants except for that I can only rank four schools in my list?</p></li>
<li><p>During the matching process, do the college adcoms see where we’ve ranked their respective college at? In other words, does ranking a school your 1st give you a better chance than that when you rank it at 4th?</p></li>
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<p>Thank you guys in advance =)</p>

6082

<ol>
<li>Yes.</li>
<li>Nope! However, other schools seem to know if you get Matched (this isn’t a bad thing). When I withdrew my application to Rice, they mentioned Stanford.</li>
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6083

<p>^ Thank you so much. Those are crucial information to me.</p>

6084

<p>So - Where are you going Questbridge 2010 kids???</p>

<p>I miss all the Questbridge kids activity & posting on this thread…??
BUT - I follow the Facebook Questbridge 2010 Finalists page and I am happy to see so many are pleased with their college choices
(I have a hard time connecting/guessing at the CC screen names! :)</p>

<p>To update for my Grandson; although Questbridge regular decision did come through in a big way for him, he chose to attend Harvard, a non-Questbridge school!</p>

<p>Good Luck and very best wishes for a wonderful college experience to everyone!</p>

<p>YEA!</p>

<p>(I’d like to ‘pay it forward’ and be around to try and help the next round: Questbridge Prep and Questbridge 2011)</p>

6085

<p>Lots of good admission choices - some Questbridge schools - some not - Final decision? - HARVARD Class of 2014!</p>

<p>Thank you Questbridge - your ‘help’ was/is appreciated!</p>

<p>Good Luck to all the Questbridge 2010 Finalists!</p>

6086

<p>One question: Questbridge says Matched students are guaranteed “full four year scholarships” But most private colleges renew students’ financial aid each year. For most students, it’s the same, but some may have changing incomes. Are they still guaranteed full four year scholarships? Say a student is Matched to a nonbinding school, and then accepted to another university Regular Decision, with similar financial aid awards. Both schools would have the student renew their info each year, using FAFSA, tax forms, etc. right? Thanks.</p>

6087

<p>All students, whether guaranteed a certain package or not, must submit FA forms each year.</p>

<p>Now, so far as the comment on the webpage regarding all students getting full four-year scholarships–you’ve touched on my pet peeve. That statement is confusing and can be misleading. They need to take it off.</p>

<p>Some schools DO guarantee you will have the full package for all four years, even if your financial circumstances change. While I haven’t bothered to go through every single school’s individual page, so far as I know all the schools in this category are binding ones. (However, it does not follow that all binding schools guarantee they will provide a full package. Off the top of my head I know this is not true for Emory. Depending on the family’s circumstances, they may expect the parents to pay something.) </p>

<p>Some schools offer you the same FA package you would get without being a QB College Match recipient. I know Stanford, Pton and Yale all fall into this category. If your financial circumstances should for some reason dramatically improve in the future, your family’s EFC could increase. Having said that, the schools I mentioned are among the nation’s most generous, so you are going to be far better off than you would be at most colleges in the US. For you specifically, tomjones, I wouldn’t be concerned. The schools to which you have been admitted offer outstanding FA.</p>

<p>The bottom line is applicants need to thoroughly read the QB site and make sure they understand the specific package offered by each school. The webpages must be carefully read. Don’t just look at the chart and say, “Oh, so that’s what I’ll get.” Read carefully the description. Some say something along the lines of "Students from families with total income less than $xx per year and typical assets will be offered financial aid packages similar to the one below. " Others list a guaranteed package. </p>

<p>Students applying for the QB Match next year should be diligent in reading the website and should contact QB or the schools if they are unclear about just what a school is offering.</p>

6088

<p>Clearly answered my question. Thanks!!!</p>

6089

<p>i applies for the questbridge scholarship, how do i find out if i got any scholarship?? i sont know how to find out if i got the scholarship</p>

6090

<p>i applied* for the questbridge scholarship, how do i find out if i got any scholarship?? i dont know how to find out if i got the scholarship</p>

6091

<p>^E-mail QuestBridge at <a href="mailto:questions@questbridge.org">questions@questbridge.org</a> . All notifications are sent by e-mail, but it could be that yours somehow got bounced by your e-mail provider.</p>

6092

<p>Does anyone happen to know when, and where the National College Match application will be available? I’ve made a Questbridge account but under the ‘my locker’ section, the only application I have available to me is the College Prep Scholarship.</p>

6093

<p>The 2010-2011 College Match App will be available in early August, I believe.</p>

6094

<p>if you get deferred from your early matches, & you get moved on to the regular decisions, do you still receive the full scholarship from the affiliated schools?</p>

6095

<p>not necessarily, but if it’s a rich school and your EFC is low, then usually you do</p>

<p>It was weird because I didn’t get matched with Princeton, but I got in RD and received the same match scholarship</p>

<p>The thing you need to realize is that schools accept QB kids for matches when they are highly desirable, typically low income, high scoring URMs. They have to pay QB for each kid they match, as it helps in securing a URM population</p>

<p>In my case, i was an ORM with a 2100+ score, ranked #1 in my class, and had an amazing story. Holistically speaking, I was an inspirational applicant, but statistically speaking I was just an another Asian lacking a 2300+ SAT score, so they didn’t offer me the match, but they were gracious enough to let me in for RD</p>

<p>Essentially, QB is only worth it if you are an under represented minority or if you have an amazing story to tell</p>

<p>What you need to realize is that most schools aren’t necessarily looking for brilliant students, most of the time they are just trying to boost their low income / minority population statistics. I also received a near full ride to ND (less than the Princeton scholarship) and the Johnson scholarship (full tuition, room, board, books, + a nice 4k check for “personal expenses”, every year) to Washington & Lee University, a really nice, historically elitist, liberal arts college. ND and W&L both have white, high income student bodies, which was probably the main reason they wanted me so bad. They both flew me in to visit for free. My academics were great, EC’s good, but I helped their statistics more.</p>

6096

<p>I saw that universities like Princeton require supplements and the Common Application. Does that mean the essay in the Common Application is also sent to these colleges through the College Match? I don’t want to have two same essays submitted.</p>

6097

<p>the college will know that they essays are supposed to be the same. and BTW, this is last year’s forum.</p>